Ticket or tag.



PATENTED APR. 23. 1907.

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PATENTBD APR. 23, 1907.

T. H. O'BRIEN.

TICKET 0R TAG.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24. 1905.

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TICKET OR TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. April 23, 1907.

Application filed July 24:, 1905. Serial No. 271,075.

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. OBRIEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State ofWisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tickets or Tags,of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tickets or tags particularlyadaptedfor attaching or affixing to dry goods in the piece or otherobject.

Said invention has for its object to provide for concealing or isolatingthe point of the attaching or affixing pin or fastening to guard againstthe contact of the hands therewith in handling the goods bearing the tagor ticket, and to accomplish the foregoing ends in a simple, expeditiousand effective manner.

Said. invention consists of certain structural features substantially ashereinafter fully disclosed and by the claims.

Inthe accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of myinvention Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection of the same, produced centrally therethrough. Fig.2 is a fragmentary view of the ticket, with the metallic clasp and suspendingpin-loop removed, dis closing fully the form of the slot in said ticketthrough which the clasp passes. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the claspextended. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are several modifications of theinvention. Figs. 4 5 6 7, and 8 are views disclosing the respectiveblanks of the clasps or shields shown in the aforesaid figures to morefully show their structure with the exception of Fig. 9. Fig. 9 is aperspective view of the form of the invention as disclosed by Fig. 9,with the flap extended, as also the clasps therefor. Fig. 9 is asectional elevation thereof produced at one side of the attachingpin-loop, with the latter in side view. Fig. 9 is a detached perspectiveof the clasp forming metalstrip of the tag. I

In the carrying out my invention, I provide a tag or ticket 1 ofsuitable material, as card-board, paste-board and the like, forreceiving the data or memoranda to identify or mark the roll or piece ofdry-goods or other object to which the ticket or tag may be attached. M

An attaching or suspending means preferably in the form of a looped pin2, taking particularly pointed out the place of a piece of stringordinarily used for the purpose, is used herein for connecting the tagor ticket to the goods or article.

I Said suspending loop or means is preferably of wire, having one endsuitably passed through and lapped around the upper edge of a clasp 3applied to the ticket or tag.

The clasp 3, which is of preferably soft sheet or ductile metal, ispassed through a slot or opening 1 in the ticket or tag, near the upperedge of the latter, with its thus formed opposite portions or halves 3,S lying flat upon opposite sides of the tag or ticket. The upper edgesof said portions or halves 3 3 are provided with duplicatelug-like-extensions 3 those of one-half or portion being bent over theupper edge of the ticket or tag and. those of the other half or portionbeing bent over the aforesaid extensions, upon opposite sides of theticket or tag, respectively, the upper edges of said portions 3, 3themselves, however, reaching clear to the corresponding edge of theticket or tag. This is particularly so with that half or portion of theshield or clasp 3 arranged or fitting upon the front side of the ticket,or that side through which the pin-loop point projects, in order, as isobvious, to conceal or isolate the latter, to guard against the samepuncturing or tearing. the hands in handling the goods bearing the tagor ticket.

It will be noted that the tag or ticket is preferably cut away orremoved at a point opposite where the pin-loop point passes through theclasp-back, as at 4 permitting the front portion of the clasp to restdirectly in contact with said point, as well as the inner-end securingportion of the pin-loop. By this arrangement it is also noted that theclasp may be readily bent or extended from over the pin-loop point andthe latter be accordingly manipulated so as to be withdrawn from thegoods or object and thus be detached from the same together with theticket or tag.

In the modification as exemplified by Figs. 4 and 4 a clasp 5 is emloyed, with one portion passed or inserte under a single thickness ofthe tag or ticket, it being passed through slits 5 produced at shortintervals apart in said thickness, and the outstanding or projectingportions of said clasp interlapping and overlapping one another.

In the modifications as shown by Figs. 5, 5", 6, 6, 7, 7 and 8, 8, theleading char- IIC acteristic thereof is that the clasps 6, 6, 6 6thereof have, each, one edge tucked into the ticket, in under onethickness thereof, contiguous to the secured inner end of thepin-loop-and its point. In Figs. 5, 5 and 8, 8 the lug-extensions arecarried over the upper edge of the tag or ticket and clasped upon itsback. In Figs. 6, 6 and 7, 7 the lug-extensions are passed or tuckedthrough 'slots 7 7* respectively and. clasped upon its back.

As disclosed by the modification of Figs. 9 9, 9 9 I may use, in lieu ofany of the aforesaid forms of my invention, a tag proper 7, with onethickness thereof disconnected therefrom a suitable distance to form aflap 7. Between two other thicknesses of the tag proper is held atransverse metal-strip 8,

with its projecting end portions effective to form clasps adapted to bebent upon, and secure the flap 7 M down over the point of the pin-looppractically as aforesaid, the latter being passed and looped through thetag proper and said clasp-forming metal-strip,

thus effectively holding or securing said metal-strip in place, as wellas the pin-loop, to the tag.

i I claim:

1. A device of the character described, having a ticket or tag, a wireor metallic pin-loop for suspending said tag or ticket in position,

ing a ticket or tag, a pin-loop for suspending 7 said ticket or tag inposition upon the article for labeling and a clasp passed throughsaidticket and having its thus formed respective end-portions providedwith lug-extensions bent upon an edge of theticket and clasping thefront surface of thelatter, said clasp having said pin-loop passingtherethrough.

4. A device of the characterdescribed, having a pin-loop effective forsus ending a ticket or tag from an article for abeling or' tagging, anda clasp having passing therethrough said pin-loop, and provided withlugeXtensions for securing it upon said ticket or tag.

5; A tag or ticketadapted to be suspended from the article to which itmay be applied, whose suspending means comprises an upward-looped wireterminating practically in a pin, and means effective of attachment tosaid ticket or tag, for guarding the pin-point.

6. A tag or ticket adapted to be suspended from the article to which itmay be applied, whose suspending means comprises an upward looped wireterminating practically in-a pin, and a clasp effective of attachment tosaid ticket or tag, for guarding the pin-point.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

THOMAS H. OBRIEU'.

Witnesses F. W. OHADBoURNn, Tnssin' NoRMILE.

